Busy workers rejoice, trials of a four-day week in Iceland have been declared an “overwhelming success”, prompting calls to test out a similar working practice in the UK.
The world’s largest ever trial of a four-day working week took place between 2015 and 2019 and saw more than 1% of Iceland’s working population test out the pilot programme, which cut the working week to 35-36 hours with no reduction in overall pay.